It's a fine line between effective '80s homage and clumsy retro spoof, with the latter usually involving a lot of overplayed visual gags like brick-sized cell phones and VHS tapes. Cue pointing and laughing. This new HP video, dubbed "Computer Show," hits the sweet spot perfectly with its recreation of a Reagan-era public access show...
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AdFreak Daily Roundup
February 21, 2017
Today's highs and lows of creativity
HP PageWide is indeed superior to dot matrix
By T.L. Stanley
It's a fine line between effective '80s homage and clumsy retro spoof, with the latter usually involving a lot of overplayed visual gags like brick-sized cell phones and VHS tapes. Cue pointing and laughing. This new HP video, dubbed "Computer Show," hits the sweet spot perfectly with its recreation of a Reagan-era public access show...
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DB Breweries and Colenso BBDO give you another good reason to drink
By Tim Nudd
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Personalization comes to the little toy bricks
By Gabriel Beltrone
AICP pits Van Gogh vs. Credle, Koons vs. Kling, Cezanne vs. Graf
By Tim Nudd
Edeka presents 'Eatkarus'
By Angela Natividad
It's not often that supermarket ads break the glass barrier of their home countries, but German supermarket Edeka swings it systematically. It has shown it can touch our hearts, make us laugh, bring the mundane to life and even appeal to our darker selves. It's a brand that's as curious and dynamic as the people...
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Eat your vitamins and say your prayers!
By David Gianatasio
Whatcha gonna do when the Hulkster runs wild on you?! Last year, Hulk Hogan helped put Gawker down for the count. Now, the former WWE icon--real name: Terry Bollea--steals the show from a purse snatcher in a wild new commercial for Dutch insurance company Centraal Beheer. Created by DDB & Tribal Worldwide Amsterdam, this is...
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Out-of-home work, plus 3 celeb videos
By Tim Nudd
Late last year, Spotify ran a very cool global out-of-home campaign based around its vast trove of listener data, with headlines referencing some of the more bizarre user habits it noticed throughout 2016. The music streaming service has now unveiled a follow-up campaign of sorts, from Wieden + Kennedy New York, that again combs through...
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Silk makes Gary Almond's dream come true
By Tim Nudd
Since 1995, visitors to Almond.com have encountered a website constantly "under construction." That's because the URL was nabbed that year by Gary Almond, a businessman then based in Silicon Valley (now a resident of Farmington, New Mexico). Gary registered the domain and kept it ever since, but never got around to properly sprucing it up....
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Tables are turned for the Cubs' third baseman
By Tim Nudd
Red Bull doesn't do a ton of prank videos. But it made a good one last March, when it got Chicago Cubs third basemen Kris Bryant, the National League Rookie of the Year the previous season, to pretend to be a college kid again--a midseason transfer to Mesa Community College, where his first batting-practice session...
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But would the space-saving designs really work?
By Gabriel Beltrone
Ikea is out with some incredibly practical advertising, offering suggestions on how to make the most of small living spaces with clever, compact approaches to interior design. Instead of a bed, use kitchen cabinets as a platform for your mattress, squeezing more storage space out of your tiny room. Use pegboards to hang some clothes,...
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